Andrés Bello, humanista

Autores/as

  • Hugo Montes Universidad de Chile

Resumen

The author presents an analysis of Andrés Bello as a defender of classical
humanism, within the scope of his vast labours in Latín America. He points out
his exceptional capacities as a teacher, based on his faith in man, whom he
wanted to see advancing towards a full development, both as an individual and
as a social being, through education and love of freedom, generated, according
to Bello, by the progress of wisdom, including the practica! application of the
arts and sciences. It should also be signaled out that Bello's humanism owes much to his command of Latín, which permitted him to deeply understand the culture of the classics, law and Spanish language.

Biografía del autor/a

Hugo Montes, Universidad de Chile

Profesor del departamento de literatura de la Facultad de Filosofía, humanidades y Educación del a Universidad de Chile, y director de su Revsita Chilena de Literatura. Docente del Instituto de Letras de la Universidad Católica. Rectore del colegio Saint George. Miembro de la Academia Chilena de la Lengua del Instituto de Chile. Doctor en filosofía con mención en filología románica por la Univerisdad de Freiburg in Breisgau. Es autor de una considreable obra poética y ha investigado predominantemente la creción literaria iberoamericana y chilena. Títulos importantes de sus libros son : Ensayos estilísticos y Macchu picchu en la poesía.